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...used to be a teen-age idol," laments the eponymous hero of Cisco Pike. Now, down and out in Venice, Calif., he is trying for a comeback, but the record companies are no longer interested...
...Cisco Pike has the mismatched, haphazard look of a film that was toyed around with in the editing. It is almost as if someone struggled to keep it in a mold that Norton was trying to break...
...book of Revelation, the streets are paved with gold and the walls are encrusted with jewels. The myth persists in some quarters that the Christian church resembles that sort of heaven on earth. Tales of untold wealth are propagated even by churchmen. The late Episcopal bishop James A. Pike once wrote wildly in Playboy that the Society of Jesus owned 51% of the Bank of America. Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has predicted that tax-sheltered churches would some day be able to control the entire U.S. economy...
...forced busing of our schoolchildren from where they are to where they're not. What is wrong with spending this same money where it can actually be of some use? We need to upgrade Johnny's neighborhood school instead of hustling Johnny 25 miles down the pike to one that is no better...
...July, Forbes Plaza--the gathering place for kids on warm summer nights, the homebase for peddlers and pushers--had become merely a way-station on the way to the Mass Pike. Sanctuary, despite a planned move to the old Iroquois Club on Mt. Auburn Street, set up shop in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in North Cambridge. The Cambridge Common was vacant and dusty on most days. Yes, it was a quiet summer in Cambridge--even Hare Krishna and Process split town...